Horses, Job Fair, High Tech Jobs, Tattoos

Animals are often a part of healing for people with a variety of health conditions, and veterans can benefit from working with animals during their transition back to civilian life too.  Healing with Horses is the topic of our Video of the Week, shared by the paper.li aggregator.  See the video about this Minnesota program for women veterans at: http://youtu.be/NfqdKa-gy-Q

Home Depot will offer 100 Job Fairs for Veterans nationwide at selected stores on October 27th, where their HR professionals with help Veterans with their resumes, job searches, and interview techniques.  Locations in Arizona include Surprise and Tucson, or you can get information from them if you are unable to attend in-person, see the link at: http://www.homedepotmilitary.com/

Wanted: 100,000 Veterans to train for high tech jobs!  Stars and Stripes reports that GE, Alcoa, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing will team up with the Manufacturing Institute to begin training immediately, see the full article at: http://www.stripes.com/news/new-initiative-aims-to-train-100k-veterans

Let’s chat about tattoos: You may have heard that there are some jobs that you can’t get if you have a tattoo, whether it is military-related or not.  So, here’s some helpful information: http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2011/01/12/tattoos-and-your-job-search.htm has a list of employers that don’t mind body art (tattoos, piercings), and here’s an article that talks about creative ways to make them less obvious during an interview: http://www.snagajob.com/resources/whats-my-tattoopiercinghairstyle-got-to-do-with-it/  This topic came up in the RAO Bulletin (another great aggregator), after a veteran was told he would never get a law enforcement job with his forearm tattoos (which read “Army” and “Veteran”), see the source article at: http://www2.tbo.com/news/news/2012/oct/05/8/memeto1-tattoos-can-cuff-police-career-ar-522546/